Entries this day: am-lesson daily-meditation-thread great-office-space lessons-at-toshiba toy-store

am lesson

##10:30 Tuesday 17 February 2015 JST##

Finished my AM lesson with only M in attendance. We talked about paid vacation days. The article mentioned France with people taking 93% of their 37 available vacation days. In Japan people took 50% of their 18 vacation days.

M took 5% of his vacation days, and seemed pretty O_o when hearing about other cultures.

"I thought vacation days were just for emergencies!"

hmm..

daily meditation thread

##18:50 Tuesday 17 February 2015 JST##

Yesterday, someone was like, "I'll give anyone 500 bits to make some more givaways" so I made a thread on /u/BitTippers encouraging people to meditate.

Decided to make it a daily thing. I wonder how long it will last!

##21:45

Nice, I just got a tip for 500 bits; that should pay for a few more days at least!

great office space

##12:30 Tuesday 17 February 2015 JST##

Sweet as. I came to Wired Cafe in Atre and asked if they have an electrical outlet. Not only do they, but to use it I get to sit in a glass-wall corner overlooking Azalea and the front of Kawasaki station.

lessons at toshiba

##17:21 Tuesday 17 February 2015 JST##

I love teaching at Toshiba because the topics are so sciencey and interesting! Today Tomomi met me in Kawasaki station and introduced me to some new people at Toshiba. I had gone in earlier, thinking I would have lessons with the attendants, but they were all like, "ummm not today!"

Good thing I called JB, who was like, "don't worry. Wait for Tomomi and she'll get you sorted."

While there, I watched one of the demonstrations with liquid nitrogen.

Spoilers!:

They dip a flower then crush it, dip a rubber ball then drop (and shatter) it, dip an inflated balloon to watch it shrink (and reinflate), and dip an inflated clear plastic bag to watch it shrink as liquid appears on the inside.

toy store

##18:40 Tuesday 17 February 2015 JST##

Shibata was hammering a chisel on something when I went in to the toy store today. She said she was "making sand", which I couldn't really disagree! She was chipping sand from a block of fake sandstone, which they had apparently made by mixing sand with some kind of glue.

I doubt it was made by Mother Nature because the sandstone had a plastic model of a dinosaur in it.

I was like, "what's this?" and she goes "stegasaurus"

"Ah. same. What is dinosaur in general?"

恐竜 (きょうりゅう), "scary dragon"

ふつの竜がこわくないですか？　"Aren't regular dragons scary?"

ま、ね。。 "well yeah, but"